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This is a Guardian article about why women like heated rivalry. They say it's about a lack of patriarchy, hierarchy, a feeling of safety and no women are ever disrespected in it. Gay and bisexual women like watching and reading gay male love stories because apparently even in lesbian fiction there is misogyny.

The article says that the gay protagonists are sexy and masculine and their masculinity is not defined by what they do for women. There's also a point about how women are not expected to do emotional labour in the show and because the protagonists are rich and can afford servants, when they cook for one another it is a purely emotional experience.

I saw another interesting post on this sub where someone suggested that women like MLM because they actually realize that men are the only ones who could truly have passion for men, so it's more real to them. I liked that read. Just felt like sharing this.

The Guardian article implies that women are into anything that makes them feel comfortable. It's waaay too easy to give women the ick and the only way they can stop that from happening is by avoiding stories where women have too much screen time.

Women are not into men, they are into comfort food.

Qiu Jin was born in Fuzhou, China in 1875 but she grew up in the place of her ancestors Shaoxing, Zhejiang. This was a province that allowed girls to be educated and was quite famous for it. Her father, a government official, supported her interests. Western influence began to creep into Japan. Which meant a change in scientific, technological, philosophical, political and aesthetic ideas. It was a new era and Chinese people began sending elites to Japan to study. Qiu Jin was one of those elites and she used her influence to make progressive changes towards Republicanism and feminism.

Qiu Jin wanted to overthrow the current Qing government and allow girls to become independent and educated. The only reason she could do that was because of her father's position. She wanted it for everyone. And changing the government was a big step towards that goal. The freer the people the more female rights.

And this is how dedicated she was to her revolution. During a meeting where her fellow students were debating whether to continue fighting she declared after thrusting a dagger into the podium, “If I return to the motherland, surrender to the Manchu barbarians, and deceive the Han people, stab me with this dagger!"

Qiu Jin wanted an end to sexism. Foot binding, arranged marriage and a change to journalism and media to reflect it. She left her own arranged marriage that her father set up and joined a revolutionary organization and learned military combat skills.

In 1907, a fellow revolutionary called Xu Xilin attempted an uprising in Anqing. She failed. Qing troops surrounded the Datong School in Shaoxing, where Qiu was working as a principal. She helped her comrades hide the school's weapons and escape but she stayed behind. And the troops captured her. Several hundred soldiers were involved in the operation. They did not want her to succeed. She was interrogated and tortured. She refused to confess to the revolutionary conspiracy or provide the authorities with the confession they wanted. The authorities used writings and other evidence found at the school to establish her involvement.

Two days after they took her, she was publicly beheaded at Xuantingkou in Shaoxing. She was about 31 years old. Her final written words were beautiful. “Autumn wind, autumn rain - they make one die of sorrow.”

Conner was the first woman in the United States ever appointed to the Supreme Court. She was nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1981 and she served until her retirement in 2006. She was often a swing vote in the court where her decision would be the deciding factor. She was born in 1930 in El Paso, Texas.

Julia Carolyn Child brought French cuisine to American TV in the 60s. She was a famous TV personality and chef. She got many books published teaching people how to cook French food.

During the second world war Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the American intelligence organisation that became one of the foundations of the CIA. She tried to become a female soldier but she was 6’2” and they told her she was too tall. At first she worked in Washington, D.C., in the OSS's Secret Intelligence division. One of her jobs was keeping a list of files full of names and information for intelligence officers.

At one point the OSS was trying to prevent sharks from attacking downed airmen and sailors, as well as stop them from accidentally triggering explosives that were being used against German U-boats. Julia became an executive assistant to the scientists involved and helped with the development and testing of rescue equipment. They created shark repellent that was eventually used by the military.

After the war Child became friends with this lady called Avis DeVoto. She was also a chef and she would review books and edit culinary videos. The two of them exchanged many letters that you can find in a book titled ‘As Always, Julia’.

She married a man called Paul Child. Before he met her he had been a teacher, artist, photographer, poet and a serious student of languages and food. He had a fourth-degree black belt in judo. He met Child during WW2 when he joined the OSS in 1944. They got married 2 years later. Paul supported her culinary career. He was the reason she got so far.

Merian studied insects closely when most people wouldn't have bothered. People in England and many Europeans used to believe that insects could just spring out from the mud randomly or from dead animals. They had no idea how caterpillars became butterflies. Merian raised caterpillars in her rooms or in her garden and watched them transform. Then she wrote about what she saw to teach people and she illustrated the entire process. She recorded the exact dates when a caterpillar changed into a pupa and then emerged as a moth or butterfly. This began around 1660 when she was 13 years old.

When she was young she learned how to paint and she spent a lot of time painting insects and wondering about metamorphosis and how it worked. She became a scientist like all scientists do, by asking a question.

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The saddest part is that I actually like Vivzie's designs. Just not the ones in Hazbin Hotel. Take a look at the oldest videos from her channel. She had these really cool looking werewolf girl characters that were wild and fun looking. She had so many cool furry and human designs. Her problem was that none of them were animation friendly. Their hair was super complicated. Which is probably why you won't be seeing them, or at least not good versions of them, in a tv show. Instead we get discount Lucifer that looks a thousand times worse than any historical depiction. Just a twink in a ringleader suit.

I think the circus theme for hell with all the clowns and shit is one of the most creative ideas Vivian has. Too bad it isn't integrated into most of hell and Lucifer is still boring because of it.

Lady Montagu was the wife of the Turkish ambassador. She traveled to the Ottoman empire from 1716 to 1718 and wrote extensively about what life was like there. She was particularly interested in the lives of the women and wrote about their customs, clothing, social lives and medical knowledge. She was the first white woman to write an eyewitness account of the everyday lives of Ottoman women.

When Lady Montagu was young, she taught herself how to read Latin. A skill that they reserved for men and she used to write poetry. By the time she was 15 she had written two albums full of poems. Her father Evelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hul was very pleased. (Yes, Evelyn was a masculine name. I was confused when I couldn't find her fathers name on the but then realized that I did.) And Lady Montagu loved to read.

Her father pressured her to marry a man called Clotworthy Skeffington, the heir to the Irish Viscount Massereene. He offered £500 a year as 'pin-money’ and £1,200 a year and that was a lot of money at the time. Of course Lady Montagu rejected him and found a man called Edward Wortley Montagu. They spend the first years of their married life eloped in England. They had two children.

Reasons mentioned

+ Body image issues

+ History of depression

+ Menopause

+ Stress

+ The relationship is different

+ Bad sleep

+ Bad diet

+ Your brain is doing something different

+ You need drugs

Not once did they say that they've stopped being attracted to their husbands. Isn’t that an actual reason women give though?

Her name is Georgia Totto O’Keefe and she was a modernist painter. The Mother of American Modernism. She did painting, sculpting and photography. She worked with charcoal for a period and also watercolour. She used to do oil paintings of flowers that took up the whole page. People wondered if there was a sexual motivation behind the flowers. Keefe rejected the idea that the flowers were meant to be vaginas. One of her most celebrated paintings is called Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932). Keefe used to design and make her own clothing and she had a lovely garden. Her parents Francis and Ida were dairy farmers in Wisconsin.

Keefe worked as a commercial artist for a time and a teacher. She learned about the innovative ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow and began experimenting with abstract ideas.

Sewell was a Quaker and she was born in Norfolk, England but grew up in London. Her father had been a farmer for years until he gave up when Sewell was 12 and moved to Great Yarmouth where he worked for a shipping business partner. Her father was a good man. One time a group of people were traveling on a steam boat he owned and the boat caught fire. He paid them compensation even though it really made him sink financially and he didn't have to. Her mother was also lovely. She and her daughter were involved in a lot of charitable work. Mostly helping people who were poor or sick in the community.

The family needed money so Sewell began writing to help out. She wrote Walks with Mamma (or Stories in Words One Syllable.) This was a picture book that taught kids about nature and a message against cruelty to animals. Something Sewell cared strongly about for the rest of her life.

In her last years Sewell spent time working on a novel called Black Beauty. A novel written from the perspective of a horse that focused on animal cruelty. Sewell loved horses. She had observed a lot of cruelty towards working horses and that made her desperate to write the book. It was the last book she was able to write before she died of hepatitis (which is an inflammation of the liver.)

Menchik was born in Moscow in 1906 but she spent most of her life in England. She was the first and longest reigning Women's World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1944. Her parents worked for estate owners who were Russian nobility. Her mother Olga, was a governess who acted as a tutor and her father Frantisek, was the manager of the estates. Her father was Czech and her mother was English. Her father taught her to play chess when she was nine and when she was 14 years old she got second place in her first chess tournament.

Strozzi was born in Venice in 1619, after her family survived a plague she grew up to become one of the most prolific singer and song writers in Venice. She created secular pieces that were not funded by the church. Her father is said to be Giulio Strozzi, a poet and librettist. He wrote poetry and operas and plays.

Between 1644 and all the way to 1664, Strozzi published eight collections of music, containing mostly vocal works. Which is amazing for a woman in 17th-century Italy. Her collections include madrigals, arias, cantatas and she published under her own female name rather than hiding behind a male relative or male alias.

We don't know much about her life but apparently she was the concubine of a nobleman called Giovanni Paolo Vidman and they had about 3 children together.